Specialized Alcohol Research Centers (P50 Clinical trial Optional)
This grant funds interdisciplinary research centers to advance understanding, prevention, and treatment of alcohol misuse and related health issues, supporting collaboration and mentorship in innovative alcohol studies.
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Funder: National Institutes of Health
Due Dates: January 27, 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $1,150,000 per award; $1,500,000 estimated total program funding
Summary: Supports interdisciplinary alcohol research centers addressing alcohol misuse, alcohol use disorder, and related health consequences across the lifespan.
Key Information: Foreign organizations, non-U.S. components of U.S. organizations, and foreign components are not eligible.
Description
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of NIH, supports Specialized Alcohol Research Centers through the P50 mechanism to advance interdisciplinary, collaborative research on alcohol misuse, alcohol use disorder (AUD), and alcohol-related health consequences across the lifespan. Clinical trials are optional. Research topics include the nature, causes, genetics, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of alcohol misuse, AUD, and alcohol-related end-organ diseases, including their biomedical, psychosocial, and population health consequences.
Centers should bring together a critical mass of researchers around an understudied or innovative topic relevant to NIAAA’s mission. The program emphasizes coordination among independent researchers, development and mentorship of young investigators, and research methods, technologies, and approaches that sustain innovative, goal-directed research. A center must contribute more to the alcohol field than the sum of its parts.
